Global London on screen presents a mélange of films by directors from the Global South and North, portraying everyday life to the more fantastical, odious, or extraordinary in terms of circumstances as captured cinematically in this superdiverse city. This book portrays a segment of such superdiversity by historicising and theorising various cinematic reproductions of London by filmmakers coming to this megacity from abroad. As visitors, cosmopolitans, or even migrant filmmakers, their treatment of Londons zonal locations as both foreign and familiar is fascinating; their narratives and visualisations of Londons spatial and architectural uniqueness is given a sojourners touch; while other foreign filmmakers showcase and sometimes problematise Londons socio-cultural globality and locality as both British and a city open (and sometimes closed off) to the world. -- .
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'This collection opens up vistas to what is often forgotten or not seen in a global city like London. The contributors reveal deep histories of the different Londons on screen, and their profound knowledge about the subject make this a great read.' Saskia Sassen, The Robert S. Lind Professor of Sociology, Columbia University -- .
Introduction: Global London on screen: visitors, cosmopolitans and
migratory cinematic visions of a superdiverse city Keith B. Wagner
1 God is everywhere!: engineering the immigrant landscape of Emeric
Pressburgers Miracle in Soho Jingan MacPherson Young
2 Dropping out: interiority, claustrophobia and decadence in cosmopolitan
London cinema of the 1960s and 1970s Kevin M. Flanagan
3 On location in 1970s London: an interview with Gavrik Losey Paul Newland
4 Outside in: Twilight City and the birth of global London Malini Guha
5 Where I come from, we eat places like this for breakfast: Aki
Kaurismäkis I Hired a Contract Killer as transnational representation of
local London Claire Monk
Bollywoods London: the moral-political undertow of Londons Hindi cinema
presence Shakuntala Banaji and Rahoul Masrani
7 Brazucas on screen: the Brazilian diaspora in London as depicted in
Henrique Goldmans Jean Charles Stephanie Dennison
8 A critical analysis of the Nollywood film Osuofia in London Uchenna
Onuzulike
9 Poetics of double erasure: British East/South-East Asian cinema and Lilting
Victor Fan
10 Global Hollywood and the London set piece Lawrence Webb
11 Performative liveness in Lost in London: cinematic streaming and the
digital happening in globalising London Michael A. Unger and Keith B.
Wagner
12 Borders and cosmopolitanism in the global city: London River Ana
Virginia López Fuentes
13 Utopia as a cosmopolitan method in Alfonso Cuaróns Children of Men
Mónica Martín
Epilogue: The rise of sourdough bread: The Street, gentrification and Brexit
Charlotte Brunsdon
Index -- .
Keith B. Wagner is a Visiting Professor at Sungshin Women's University and an Affiliated Researcher at LUT University Roland-François Lack was a Senior Lecturer in French Studies at University College London -- .
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